vmware not behaving

[Ouattara Oumar Aziz]

> I've lost now two full days of work (and income) due to this. VMware
> player is an absolutely critical need for me to having working on
> Ubuntu. I'm an absolute Ubuntu lover/fan, but unfortunately if I can't
> get this matter fixed I might have to jump ship to another linux
> distro, which is sad as I prefer Ubuntu to all others.
> 
If it's a critical need to you, you got two solution. Understand that 
the vmware-player package is not the problem here. The thing that brings 
all that mess was the kernel update. So first of all, try to boot on 
your former kernel (the one that was running vmplayer ) . You could have 
to install vmware-player-kernel-modules for that kernel. Then try 
vmware-player.
First case : It runs . then you may lock kernel package to not update 
and remove the new kernel that brings the mess. You can look in synaptic 
help to figure out how to lock a package

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3.10. To Lock a Package to the Current Version (Debian only)

To lock a package to the current version follow these steps:
    1.Select the package that you want to lock in the package list.
       			     		
    2.Choose Package → Lock Version.

The Synaptic Package Manager will reload the package information. You 
should now see, that the menu item Package → Lock Version is checked.
Furthermore all actions in the menu Package are disabled now.

To unlock the package uncheck Package → Lock Version
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Second case: it doesn't (or you could wanted any new kernel update ). 
then You'll have to use VMWare player official package and compile 
module for your kernel. Execute that on the bash. Little explanation can 
be found on a previous post.

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sudo apt-get --purge vmware-player-kernel-modules
apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
wget 
http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmplayer/VMware-player-1.0.1-19317.tar.gz
tar xzvf VMware-player-1.0.1-19317.tar.gz
cd vmware-player-distrib
sudo ./vmware-install.pl
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every time you'll have a kernel update do
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
sudo vmware-config.pl

	

	
		
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